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From: Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD Ready for the Desktop?
To: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>
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--- Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 06:06:19PM -0800, Haikal Saadh wrote:
> > Just thought I'd get a word in on this.
> > 
> > Now, I have been able to to convince a few, techincally competent
> > friends to try freebsd, with a variety of methods, from logical
> > debate to rating and raving to downright sabotage ('Hey you want
> to
> > install linux, here, try this *slips freebsd disc into tray*.
> > Although this only tends to work with *nix n00bs :) ), There was
> one
> > thing that made me reluctant to sneakily put FreeBSD on the
> machine
> > of a not really computer-knowledgeable person: The packages that
> came
> > with 5.0.
> 
> Forgive me if I've missed something jumping into this thread so
> late, but
> why were you thinking that 5.0 would be good for a not really
> computer
> knowledgeable person?  Surely 4.7, which is rock-solid stable and
> comes on
> a nice 4-CD set with all the packages you could wish for, would
> have been a
> better choice?  5.0 may be a release now, but it's not something
> I'd
> suggest giving to newbies in its present state.
> 

Point. New release fever I guess. I just said 5.0 because that was
the ISO I had. I'm starting to thing I did jump the gun, though (with
5.0), what with the adduser bugs and all (Just found that I out
because I just tried to login as myself for the first time).

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